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The Shoe in the Foundation: The Child Vera Never Mentioned
The Shoe in the Foundation: The Child Vera Never Mentioned
Fear tightens when an ordinary survey photo hides a deliberate act: a child's leather oxford, sole down in a garage foundation poured in spring 1952. If Vera Morris arrived with three children but her family always remembered only two, what happened to the missing child and why was a shoe placed in concrete?
In this episode, you will hear how a county survey photograph led a granddaughter to county archives, ship manifests, and a family silence that had lasted six decades, and the single object that reopened a vanished child's…
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